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Featuring over 85% efficient power conversion, OneStor(TM) SP1224s Extensible Storage Platform (ESP) can be deployed as part of tiered storage infrastructure or racked from floor to ceiling. Product offers 24, 2.5 in. drives in 2U form factor and works on modular, standards-based architecture. Field replaceable units, Xyratex Intelligent Platform Manager software, and Storage Bridge Bay 2.0 compatibility help server and storage OEMs to speed product ramp-up time.
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Xyratex Announces Intelligent Small Form Factor Storage System with over 85 Percent Efficient Power Conversion
The Newest Member of the OneStor(TM) Extensible Storage Platform Family Doubles the Performance Density and Reduces an OEM's Time to Market
HAVANT, England, April 2, 2008 -- Xyratex Ltd. (NASDAQ:XRTX), a leading provider of enterprise-class data storage subsystems and storage process technology, today announced the OneStor SP1224s, the second member of the company's versatile OneStor Extensible Storage Platform (ESP) family. The SP1224s is a 2U, 24-drive storage system based on 2.5-inch drives and provides 85+ percent efficient power conversion. Compared with standard 3.5-inch drives, these Small Form Factor (SFF) drives consume less power with double the performance density, making the OneStor SP1224s ideal for transaction-intensive applications. The OneStor ESP family utilizes common Field Replaceable Units (FRU), Xyratex Intelligent Platform Manager (IPM) software, and Storage Bridge Bay (SBB) 2.0 compatibility -- enabling server and storage OEMs to reduce both product ramp-up time and inventory costs for spares.
"Information needs continue to accelerate in terms of scale and diversity, posing major product management and time-to-market challenges for storage solution providers," said Richard Villars, vice president of storage systems research at IDC. "Solutions like Xyratex's OneStor platform allow storage OEMs to quickly add new functions like IOPS-optimized storage with minimal impact on testing/qualification processes and inventory levels. With such a solution, OEMs can quickly and efficiently meet customers' needs for storage architectures that support power and space efficient data centers."
OneStor SP1224s: Higher Performance Density for Transaction-Intensive Applications
The OneStor SP1224s is designed to deliver maximum IOPS in the minimum amount of space. It enables transaction-intensive enterprise applications such as virtualized environments, IOPS-intensive databases, online trading and resolution, database redo logs, and file system metadata to get more performance per rack unit at a dramatically lower operational cost. This is important for IT executives as they are required to adhere to tighter service level agreements demanding faster response times and higher availability. Adding to its versatility, Xyratex OEMs are able to deploy the SP1224s as part of a tiered storage infrastructure, or rack them from floor to ceiling for truly transaction-intensive applications.
"The adoption of Seagate Savvio 2.5-inch drive technology in the enterprise has created an important transition in the storage industry," said Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute Business. "We're seeing a growing demand with enterprise customers for high performance storage systems that deliver a lower watts per IOPS profile for their growing application demands within the constrained physical space of their data center. By incorporating Savvio SFF drives in the new OneStor SP1224s, we feel Xyratex is well-positioned to meet enterprise customers' requirements for lower power and higher performance, giving them a competitive edge in the market."
OneStor ESP: The Intelligent Solution for Green Storage
OneStor ESP features a modular, standards-based architecture designed to meet diverse enterprise needs by combining Xyratex IPM software, storage density, power efficiency, and a versatile storage system design. Exclusive to Xyratex, OneStor ESP runs the IPM software, enabling users to leverage self-healing, fault diagnosis and resolution capabilities, persistent error logging, and system status monitoring providing new levels of operational efficiency. In addition, its power efficient, recycle-oriented product design features individual-drive power control, enhanced power supply efficiency and advanced adaptive cooling -- all leading to reduced energy consumption. As such, the OneStor SP1224s offers significant green storage benefits allowing end users to reduce operating costs for system administration and energy requirements over the life of the product.
"As an OEM supplier, it's imperative that we anticipate market demands early so our customers are equipped with competitive products that meet rapidly evolving enterprise business requirements," said Lisa Hart, vice president of marketing, Networked Storage Solutions, Xyratex. "Delivering products that are cost-effective, improve time to market and offer significant value, continues to be a key objective of Xyratex. We feel that with today's product introduction we've accomplished these goals."
Commitment to Environmental Stewardship
Xyratex embodies a corporate ethic of environmental stewardship that includes community involvement, greening of the manufacturing process, a reduction in energy consumption, and waste recycling programs. The company actively drives environmental standards that enable data center managers to monitor and control energy usage, as well as comply with environmental legislation and standards. This code of ethics is translated through localized manufacturing that utilizes recycled packaging and shipping materials and reduces the cost of operations to ensure that end users minimize energy consumption.
About Xyratex
Xyratex is a leading provider of enterprise-class data storage subsystems and storage process technology. The company designs and manufactures enabling technology that provides OEM and disk drive manufacturers with data storage products to support high-performance storage and data communication networks. Xyratex has over 20 years of experience in research and development relating to disk drives, storage systems, and high-speed communication protocols.
Founded in 1994 in a management buy-out from IBM, and with headquarters in the UK, Xyratex has an established global base with R&D and operational facilities in Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia. For more information, visit Xyratex's web site at www.xyratex.com/.
CONTACT: Marketing, Lisa Hart, +1-303-442-3449, lisa_hart@us.xyratex.com, of Xyratex Ltd.
